Las Vegas Judge Elizabeth Gonzalez ruled that a hearing over the
full case will take place in a Nevada courtroom, according to The
Guardian, dealing a blow to Adelson, the owner of Las Vegas Sands and a
major GOP political donor.
"This matter has been pending in Nevada courts for almost five
years," Gonzalez said. "Judicial economy would be served by continuing
his litigation in Nevada."

In the much-needed pile-on lambasting the most recent round of Iraq War
whitewashing, Ex-CIA Deputy Director Michael Morell appeared on the TV
to say that yes, the Bush administration lied to the public about the
intelligence presented to them. He was the one briefing the White House
on that intelligence at the time, and so he is among the most very
qualified people on earth to make that assertion. But he didn't pipe up
with this at the time, you must understand, because that wasn't his job.

[CHRIS MATTHEWS]: You're the briefer for the president on
intelligence, you're the top person to go in and tell him what's going
on. You see Cheney make this charge he's got a nuclear bomb and then
they make subsequent charges he knew how to deliver it…and nobody raised
their hand and said, "No that's not what we told him." [...]
MORELL: As the briefer, my job is to carry CIA's best information and
best analysis to the president of the United States and make sure he
understands it. My job is to not watch what they're saying on TV.

Given the magnitude of death and destruction unleashed as a result of
those misrepresentations, you have to admire the man's devotion to his
own job security. A true hero.

MATTHEWS: So you're briefing the president on the reasons
for war, they're selling the war, using your stuff, saying you made that
case when you didn't. So they're using your credibility to make the
case for war dishonestly, as you just admitted. [...]
MORELL: On some aspects. On some aspects.

Add this to the pile, then. There were many, many Americans that knew at
the time that the intelligence being presented to justify the Iraq War
was weak or simply fraudulent; the case being made against the war at the time
relied on U.N. weapons inspectors, nuclear experts, foreign policy
experts and others who regularly piped up to say that assertions about
"aluminum tubes" or "yellowcake uranium" or an "Al-Qaeda connection"
were simply false. READ MORE

As Jesus once said, “Blessed are rich pastors, for they deserve a private jet.”

Wait, no he didn’t. But that’s essentially the message Creflo Dollar,
a prominent mega-pastor in College Park, Georgia, wants his congregants
to believe.

In March, the website for World Changers Church International,
Dollar’s church, launched Project G650, a campaign to purchase the
53-year-old pastor a Gulfstream G-650 luxury jet valued at roughly $65
million dollars. Dollar (yes, that’s his actual name) reportedly already owned
a private plane, but encouraged members of his church — which claims
around 30,000 congregants, not including thousands of online followers —
to buy him a new one.

“The mission of Project G650 is to acquire a Gulfstream G650 airplane
so that Pastors Creflo and Taffi [his wife] and World Changers Church
International can continue to blanket the globe with the Gospel of
grace,” the website read, according to the Christian Post.
“We are believing for 200,000 people to give contributions of 300 US
dollars or more to turn this dream into a reality — and allow us to
retire the aircraft that served us well for many years.” READ MORE

Prior to his admission on Thursday night, Duggar spent years
crisscrossing the country as a spokesman for “traditional values.”
Duggar took a job as executive director of the Family Research Council’s
political arm in 2013. In that role, which he resigned on Thursday,
Duggar argued that marriage equality and abortion rights — among other
things — were destroying the values that he and his family embodied.

Here are nine of Duggar’s most sanctimonious moments:

1. When Josh Duggar argued that an LGBT nondiscrimination measure in Arkansas jeopardized the safety of children: READ MORE